Weather Eye: winter of discontent

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This winter may have taken a bigger toll on us than previously thought because a whole host of mental problems peak in winter, according to a recent study.

Monitoring the mental wellbeing of an entire nation has always been a problem. Surveys on the phone or face-to-face are limited because of a reluctance to discuss mental health. But a new approach has been taken using the internet to monitor how people search online for queries about mental health.

Using Google’s public database, mental health queries were followed over four years in Australia and the US, the theory being that people

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